Connecticut state Senate passes bill giving electoral votes to presidential candidate who wins popular vote | TheHill

Connecticut state Senate passes bill giving electoral votes to presidential candidate who wins popular vote | TheHill:
"The Connecticut state Senate on Saturday voted in favor of a measure to give the state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.
The move puts the state in a position to become the 11th, in addition to Washington, D.C., to join an interstate compact to pool their Electoral College votes for the candidate who wins the popular vote.
...Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy is expected to sign the legislation, according to the report.
With the addition of Connecticut’s seven electoral votes, the compact would have 172 in total.
For the compact to go into effect nationally, it would need 270 electoral votes – the number needed for a candidate to win the presidency.
The nationwide effort to form the compact gained traction after George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election without winning the popular vote and took on new life after the 2016 election.
President Trump won the Electoral College, but Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes."

History for May 8

History for May 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Miguel Hidalgo 1753, Jean Henri Dunant 1828, Oscar Hammerstein 1847


Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884 - 33rd president of the United States, Bishop Fulton Sheen 1895, Don Rickles 1926 - Comedian


1541 - Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo.


1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.


1945 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.


1956 - Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of "Mad Magazine" for the first time.


1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.


1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat".


1984 - The Soviet Union announced that they would not participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles.


1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.

The Consequences of Historical Ignorance

The Consequences of Historical Ignorance:

"Americans should be outraged that our schools have failed to teach even the most basic historical facts to the younger generations. Worse, the education they receive has often only turned into a justification for superficial social activism, lacking in depth and veracity.
David Hogg, the teen survivor of the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, who became a gun-control activist, exemplifies this worsening problem. He recently tweeted:"

The way we were-----The Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby 1967

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From 2017!-----U.S. Faces Looming Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians « CBS New York

U.S. Faces Looming Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians « CBS New York:
"NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – America will soon face a shortage of as many as 90,000 doctors.
CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez reports a combination of retiring doctors and increasing demand will lead to a significant need for primary care physicians. 
...The U.S. is in need of more primary care doctors, partly because many older physicians are retiring, citing increased paperwork and decreased time with patients.
...By 2025 there could be a shortage of up to 35,000 primary care physicians. 
Koeppen says money plays a role..."
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"WHY DOES GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE LEAD TO RATIONING?

(4) Unbiased America - Posts: 
"WHY DOES GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE LEAD TO RATIONING?
by Kevin Ryan
"I posted a video the BBC produced about how Britain's single-payer healthcare system has led to massive wait times and inadequate service, and several people responded that "that's normal". 
The people who say "this is normal" don't understand economics.
In a market system, a huge, unmet demand for service (be it medical or anything else) draws providers in because it's an opportunity to earn money. 
Think about a town without a grocery store or a long stretch of road without a gas station. 
These SHOULD be situations that providers flock to to make money. 
But when the government manipulates a market via price controls or other interference, shortages or surpluses are the inevitable result, as any student of economics could tell you.
There are many ways of explaining this problem. 
The attached graphic shows the basic economics explanation..."
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ACLJ Unearths Evidence Obama State Department Misled Congress on the Use of Taxpayer Funding to “Influence the Current Israeli Election” | American Center for Law and Justice

ACLJ Unearths Evidence Obama State Department Misled Congress on the Use of Taxpayer Funding to “Influence the Current Israeli Election” | American Center for Law and Justice:

"The ACLJ has just obtained new documents showing the Obama State Department misled Members of Congress about taxpayer funding going to an organization that was attempting to unseat the government of our ally Israel."

Your Culture is My Underpants | Klavan On The Culture

Your Culture is My Underpants | Klavan On The Culture:
"Your culture is my underpants.

I mention this because, earlier this week, a young lady named Keziah Daum tweeted a picture of herself in a Chinese-style prom dress. In the picture, Keziah was standing with her date. 
She looked absolutely adorable in the pretty dress and her date was obviously wondering how he got so lucky. 
It was a photo to inspire a smile in anyone who feels pleasure at the sight of youth, beauty, life, love, joy or the harmless delights of just being human.

So, you guessed it, leftists were triggered. 
"My culture is not your prom dress," tweeted one presumably Asian knucklehead. And plenty of other angry little trolls joined in.

But actually, they were all wrong, every one of them. Because you know what? 
Your culture is her prom dress. 
It's also my underpants.
In fact, I have the entire history of the Ming dynasty embroidered on the seat of my jockeys. Occasionally I even dig around back there and use the Prince of Yan to scratch an itch. 
The sometimes-tragic and occasionally triumphant journey of black Americans adorns the pouch up front. 
Mexicans get the left leg, the Irish the right, and various mixed races are spread across the elastic waist because, you know, they're flexible.

Now none of this is to insult any of these peoples. 
It's to insult leftists. 
Or more precisely, it's to tell leftists they can pound sand, every one of them. 

No matter where you're from, no matter what you look like, your culture is not your culture. Your culture is just there and I can appropriate it any time I want for any reason I see fit. Know why? 

I'm a free American man, I don't care what you think and I can do whatever I like. 

And I like scratching my butt itches with the Prince of Yan..."

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